[scribus] Scribus can't Find Gimp

Henry Hartley henryhartley at westat.com
Thu Dec 22 19:38:41 UTC 2011


bobparham at comcast.net wrote:
>> I downloaded Gimp _after_ downloading Scribus and have been 
>> unable to get Scribus to find Gimp. I went into Scribus
>> (vs 1.4.0rc6) clicked File>Preferences>External Tools>Image
>> Processing Tool and Typed in c:\Users\Bob P\.Gimp-2.6. I
>> then clicked OK and Apply. I right clicked a photo in a
>> Scribus document and Edit Image. I got a window telling me
>> that Gimp is missing. I have Windows 7 64bit OS. Can anyone
>> tell me what I am doing wrong?

Chances are c:\Users\Bob P\.Gimp-2.6 is not where GIMP is installed. That's your personal gimp folder. What you probably want is C:\Program Files (x86)\gimp-2.6\bin\. Look for the folder with gimp-2.6.exe in it. That's the directory that Scribus needs to know about.

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Henry




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